Scaling MySQL to 700 million inserts per day
We use MySQL on most of our projects. One of these projects has a an access pattern unlike any other I've worked on. Several million... more »
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Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 2 (Data model)
This is the second part of how to use Apache Cassandra with Java, in this part we dive deeper into the data model that is used by Cassandra.
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NoSQL Smackdown!
Stu Hood, Jan Lehnardt, Wynn Netherland, and Werner Vogels mix it up at the Data Cluster Meetup at SXSW. Cassandra, CouchDB, MongoDB, and... more »
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Why You Should Not Shrink Your Database
In a previous post, we mentioned that shrinking a database can cause fragmentation, and fragmentation can cause Windchill to run slowly.... more »
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How to Use JPA and JDO in HBase
HBase, under the Apache Hadoop project, is a distributed, column-oriented storage system that has been modeled after BigTable. There are... more »
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Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 1
The first part about installing and using the Apache Cassandra database on Windows / MacOS X / Linux and then communicating with it using... more »
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Why Adobe is using HBase
Our team builds infrastructure services for many clients across Adobe. We have services ranging from commenting and tagging to structured... more »
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A few tips about db4o querying performance and LINQ
Christoph Menge shows us why queries like sorting operations on large datasets could become a performance bottleneck. Don't forget to... more »
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First toe in the water (.NET db4o) by Andrew Rea
Andrew decided to choose db4o over Mongo for its initial tests with NoSQL databases. In his blog post he shows us how to use db4o with... more »
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Toward a NoSQL taxonomy
Curt Monash would be happy with 3 parts to the NoSQL taxonomy - with at least three parts to the taxonomy: 1) How data looks logically on... more »
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VMware Hires Key NoSQL Developer
The VMware executive blog recently announced the hiring of Salvatore Sanfilippo, the key developer for Redis, a NoSQL database (Key... more »
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Visual Guide to NoSQL Systems
There are so many NoSQL systems these days that it's hard to get a quick overview of the major trade-offs involved when evaluating... more »
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Load Testing Relational Databases With JMeter
A simple, step by step tutorial about creating a JMeter database test plan.
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Rackspace and Drizzle: It’s Time To Rethink Everything
The Drizzle project was started by Brian Aker from MySQL. Brian served as Director of Architecture at MySQL, and after MySQL was acquired... more »
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A performant JDO/JPA persistence alternative for GAE (& GWT) using the datastore API more directly
The standard way to persist objects in Google App Engine is to use either JDO or JPA. A much performant strategy for persistence is to... more »
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NOSQL MongoDB some useful info and a short evaluation using Java
With NOSQL movement gaining momentum and big firms like Facebook,Google contributing to it, MongoDB seems to be an important member of... more »
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Tuning Queries when using Pagination with JPA and Hibernate
Database pagination allows you to step through a result set in manageable chunks (say 5 at a time). This is an important feature when a... more »
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Advanced db4o projects in C#
Three nice db4o based projects by James Hicks available on GitHub: 1) Db4oFramework: a wrapper around db4o written in C# that makes it... more »
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Great Lies: "Design" vs. "Construction"
In reflecting on Architecture, I realized that there are some profound differences between "real" architecture and software architecture.
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Three High-Performance Caching Methods
Performance is very important in environments with widely distributed data sources because network latency cannot be controlled. Real or... more »
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Flex RESTing with MySQL
Like many coders, I get an idea for my next application and start feverishly coding it with eye-popping effects and graphics. After my... more »
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Performance tuning a server in less than three minutes while being slashdotted
So you wrote a blog post about something that seemed fairly innocuous, but for whatever reason, it caught the attention of one of the... more »
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Hibernate Spring Tutorial
If you are developing middleware services with the Springframework, in the majority of cases you will make use of the Hibernate framework... more »
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Unit testing with Hibernate and Spring
Many applications use hibernate as OR-Mapper. This article shows an easy and fast way how to unit test your DAOs and domain model.
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Cassandra Usurping MySQL on Twitter
One source had confirmed that Twitter was working with the NoSQL data store, Cassandra, late last year. Some more details have finally... more »
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